Bannon Tells GOP: 'Seize the Institutions' of Government Now or We're 'Going to Prison' After 2028
Bannon Tells GOP: 'Seize the Institutions' of Government Now or We're 'Going to Prison' After 2028 | Common Dreams
Bannon is a piece of shit ghoul but of MAGAs most influential assholes he’s ones of the few that has enough guile to understand what will happen if they somehow lose the gambit they’ve embarked upon. Things are only going to escalate from here after the big loses they suffered Tuesday and as the economy continues to ride a unicycle on a 2x4 across the Grand Canyon
Bannon is a piece of shit ghoul but of MAGAs most influential assholes he’s ones of the few that has enough guile to understand what will happen if they somehow lose the gambit they’ve embarked upon.
I wonder if Bannon and trump internally refer to this future state as being Bolsonaro'd.
The system will not deliver justice. People's justice might not be as kind as what Bolsonaro's getting.
I found the book mindfuck so interesting listening through who bannon was when the guy first met him and the journey to what he became.
We tend to assume these pieces of shit were always as bad as they currently are, so listening to stories like that are quite valuable to understanding how we get to where we are/were. The way this kind of awful can grow in the right person.
That bastard sez a lot of things. That's all he does.
So what he's saying is that the people are kicking ass. Don't threaten me with a good time!
Everybody keep being active and getting others active too!!
The more of us doing the easier it makes it for us all to get more done, to succeed more, & to win more.
Let's show them what the people can do together. Making the USA what it should have been after all these years.
Hope is Powerful!! Strength in Unity!! Power to the People!!!
They are never going to prison. Democrats would never imprison their only chance to win against.
Oh man, could you imagine if THAT was how Trump ran for another term?
Democrats: Surely our fellow americans wouldn't repeat-repeat-repeat vote for him! We can compromise to pass the "We Can Keep The Best Presidents As Long As We Want And It Is Temporarily Legal To Drink Water Without Asking Nestle" bill!
If a 2028 Democratic presidential candidate has any platform other than arresting Republican figureheads, I will not support them. Lawbreakers and criminals belong in prison.
I'll be honest, I would not have had the left campaigning on "lock him up" but I'm not sure there can be any other option.
If they cop out with some unity bullshit it will just happen again in 4 years when people forget or decide they need a change or whatever.
Yay 2 party systems.
Both lock them up and make america better should be campaign. With all the specifics of course
at this rate i don't think there is going to be a 2028 election or a democratic party.
What a Treasonous Pig. I hope his bacon gets fried
That statement seems treasonous. Where is Efrem Zimbalist Jr. when you need him?
They need to be tried for treason, and punished accordingly.
You mean the people who betrayed America and let hundred of thousand of Americans needlessly die in the pandemic?
Then cut aid to foreign governments so they could bail out their authoritarian friends causing hundreds of thousands more people around the world to die needlessly?
He doesn't need to worry, there won't be a democratic win in a big election ever again.
And even IF for some miracle it would happen, they are so milquetoast that they would probably give out blanket immunity "for the sake of not dividing the nation further"
Even so democrats still won. We just need to make sure ways to votes are not tampered with and to not using the voting machines they bought
It really depends on what happens with Democrat leadership over the next few years. If enough progressives manage to actually wrest control from the octogenarians, including by means of winning primaries like Mamdani, then we may see greater interest in some degree of accountability. Whether that's prison time or something else, who knows.
It depends not just on them but how many people get active and get others active to do too. Thats what will get the people to win
That's a coup right? That sounds a LOT like a coup.
It's only a coup if it happens in the coup region of the world. Otherwise it's just sparkling facism
lol traitors don’t get the luxury of prison.
Alternate headline: Bannon tells GOP they've been doing just an absolute fuckton of crimes.
Crimes which current democrats will ignore in the name of making peace.
Oh, Steve. If there's any justice in the world, you'll never see the inside of a prison. Just the inside of a blindfold.
If you have to change the way the country works so you don’t go to prison, you should already be there.
The guy is admitting to planning a coup; he's a terrorist.
Technically that's treason, so he's a traitor (unless you're saying he's that and a terrorist, in which case nevermind)
And still nobody is gonna stop him
Reminds me of the October revolution a bit, Lenin screaming to seize power now (that the provisional government is weak)
These people have been gleefully plotting to form hunting parties to track and murder minorities and anyone who’s against their agenda. Prison would be too lenient.
Don't worry Bannon, Democrat leadership doesn't exactly have the best track record of holding criminals and actual enemies of the people accountable for their crimes.
We're going to have to demand they do. When the time comes, we cannot let it go. We must insist these people face justice. Be as annoying about it as we are about the Epstein files.
Exactly. I’ll eat my hat if any of the key people gave any consequences at all when all this is over. It will be all, “we have to look forward, not backward.” I wouldn’t be shocked if an elected Democratic president pardoned Trump and his goons so that we can “heal as a nation.”
Garland’s understandable desire to appear a-political in the Jan 6th and Trump cases will be a stick the left use to beat the moderates in the Democrat party for decades, and rightly so.
If Garland hadn’t wasted 15 months working from the bottom (rioters) up Trump would probably be in prison now. I think he was well intentioned but didn’t have the bottle to be the guy who put the wheels in motion for banging up a President.
The only good outcome is a revolution and starting the Untied States over from scratch
No revolution, but you really need reforms to the power structure and the way elections work. Starting with the current division of presidential power between a Prime Minister (or Chancellor) and a President. If you already had this separation of powers, you would never have been paralysed the way you are now; if representatives failed to reach an agreement to approve the 2026 federal budget proposed by the prime minister, the president would simply dismiss the government and call for new elections.
I demand Trump and his cronies be arrested
We will need de trump-ification like denazification in 1945 Germany
I don't trust the democrats to hold these genocidal maniacs accountable at all
Prison? I was hoping for public executions
Best I can offer is healing wounds, looking forward and moving on together. We need a strong show of bipartisan support, not a witch hunt.
/s
Phew! I thought you were going to offer thoughts and prayers.
Good, I was worried we'd be dwelling on the past
Me too. The catharis from seeing the moment of shock and fear just as the guillotine's blade touches the skin on their neck will make all of this worth it.
I was hoping more for a Mussolini style upside down hanging in public where anyone who wishes to can desecrate their corpses.
The Ceaușescu look if you will
Upvoted this and it was the 47th one. Feels good
Maybe if you didn't do a bunch of blatently illegal/immoral shit that could solve the whole prison issue too?
It's not "those who will be targeted," it's those who broke the law. How is it that a group can claim they should arrest and detain/deport people for filling out a piece of paper wrong 14 years ago that had nothing to do with fraud, embezzlement, or hurting anyone. Just trying to work a 9-5 and provide for their families, yet this group can turn around and support people who are openly admitting they have committed crimes and should commit more while asking others to commit crimes to stay out of prison in the future.
Just trying to work a 9-5 and provide for their families
Yeah, but did they do this while being brown?
Can some of these fuckers start going to prison in 2026?
You need to show your political power is greater than his political power for the institutions to listen.
Every political figure has their own unique mana bar, their own special following of varying degrees of power, but Trump’s mana bar is different.
Trump’s base is not remotely the American majority, but they are the most mana-dense group out there. They are pure, raw, power to exert political will. Not as individuals, they’re stupider than soggy drywall as individuals. As a group, they have all the cards because they are:
United no matter who is part of the group. No entry requirements other than loyalty.
Guaranteed loyal. Trump can tell them to jump, they jump. Trump eats a baby on TV, they will wear “Eat the baby” T-shirts the next day. Trump says “storm the capitol” to prove to Congress and Senate that he has them on a leash and they even do that.
Patriotic, they carry the flag. The left is largely anti-jingoism, but in the world-stage, flags have power. Patriotism is team-power. When we abandoned the flag we gave up a large swath of power.
Armed and are violent. Again, you see this as anti-social and harmful, and on a community level it often is, but in the political landscape where there is no actual such thing as “law” having an armed group of loyalists is how nations have been built and preserved for literally thousands of years.
The longer Trump’s cabinet and administration can hold onto this group, the more they can do to pilfer the reserves and get their backers and sponsors filled with sweet, sweet sacks of cash in the form of deregulation and tax breaks.
The thing is, like with so many cases like this in history, it’s entirely constructed on the shaky foundation of one person’s “charm” and ability to hold onto their attention spans or lack thereof.
As soon as Trump keels over, which could literally be at any moment, this political mana will start to disperse. This is why you’re starting to see a lot more Vance on programs, a lot more Bannon and Miller, a lot more of the generals and enablers each trying to secure some fleeting drop of that mana. I do not think people like Vance are going to be able to control even a fraction of the power that Trump commanded, but it could be a long, long time before any of them face any consequence if they do at all.
Congratulations, you now understand "political capital" in the nerdiest way I can explain it.
They will be pardoned if before then.
Or sooner
Don’t threaten us with a good time, Steve.
The core message seems to be: since Trump is doing everything by executive order, the next time a Democrat holds the office of the presidency, ALL of it will be undone. And some of it, in his view, will be declared illegal in the first place. Like, I don't know, the DOGE takeover early in the year. Or the imprisonment of citizens and legal immigrants because racism.
Biden didn't do any of it. He didn't even push for the Trump tax cuts from 2017 to be undone, which was insane. I sense that's part of the reason Harris lost in 2024, and it seems that the Democrats of 2025 are starting to smell the wind of change. Because the country and the voters forced them to.
I was horrified in 2022 when both Biden and Yellen went on the record stating they believed the high inflation was just temporary and not a larger concern. This time around it's Trump telling America prices are down and the economy is booming.
When by a miracle the upcoming 2026 voting fraud and roadblocks will be undone, and 2028's election is fair and brings a FULL landslide democratic win.
Then the Democrats must go full in on a blaze of justice and condemn everyone in the current administration, including local government, think-tanks and anyone who enriched themselves unfairly, as conspirators in an evil coup to convict them with the highest penalties.
If they do not ... the country will be lost in a prolonged smouldering fire of fascism.
A "national pardon" to keep the balance is not a proper solution to this.
But, read what I started with and you'll see there are enormous hurdles to overcome, I am not convinced the current administration will let any of it happen.
The king in all but name is already here, and 2028 will likely have seen the crowning ceremony.
This would literally be a miracle.
I expect we go straight to “only look forward, not backwards.” Let’s face it, there are a lot of establishment dems in those Epstein files too whom they’d rather not prosecute.
Both parties need to be discarded if regular Americans are to have any hope. Get rid of the donor-run uniparty, banish first past the post, disband the electoral college, and restore the fairness doctrine for news media broadcast license eligibility, and maybe…
If there's a Ranked Choice initiative/group in your area please volunteer. This will give us the most bang for your time to get away from this duopoly. I say if because some states have banned RCV. That's how scared they are.
But prosecuting these criminals would be political/s
This is what I thought during the first term, and yet... here we are again
Dancing to the jailhouse rock!
Oh he thinks he's only getting prison?
Sadly yes but he will die there so 🤷♂️
A perfectly normal thing to say
Evil really ages people like milk
I've never agreed more with Steve Bannon. Unfortunately I don't think Dems have the balls
Why would the Party of Law and Order go to Prison? That's for CRIMINALS which I was Told by Fox News they WERENT?
And rightfully they will go to prison.
It's a good thing for them that I don't get to make the decisions, because prison would not be what I decide.